American Infallibility

by | Mar 9, 2022

American Infallibility

by | Mar 9, 2022

Beneath the widespread stubborn American refusal to understand the Russian government’s motives for its condemnable invasion of Ukraine is the equally widespread stubborn refusal to learn from the U.S. government’s wrong moves with respect to Russia over the last 30 years. But even deeper is the widespread stubborn refusal to even entertain the possibility that the U.S. government might have made any wrong moves at all.

Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is the former executive editor of The Libertarian Institute and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He is the former senior editor at the Cato Institute and Institute for Humane Studies; former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education; and former vice president at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His latest books are Coming to Palestine and What Social Animals Owe to Each Other.

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